Jeffrey L. Kenton

Summary

Experienced consultant, manager and software developer.
Cofounder and Director of Operating Systems at Xyvision. Especially
successful at building teams and motivating people, and delivering
software products on time.

Software Development

Unix kernel internals, file systems and device drivers

Modified Unix file system (UFS) to allocate large
contiguous blocks for Video-On-Demand movie storage. These changes doubled
system output speed.

Modified ATM driver to run on multi-processor
machine.

Wrote DLPI driver to allow Oracle to use shared
memory (SCI) as a network connection.

Adapted Unix kernel to run on a custom
multi-processor for a French startup.

Designed a C-like language for data mining
applications and implemented a compiler for it. This language made it easy
for novice programmers to use the product, and greatly widened the pool of
prospective customers.

Made major additions to database language compiler.
Added many modern language features, and eased existing syntax restrictions.
Completed the project ahead of schedule and doubled compilation speed in the
process.

Cross-compiler code generation and math libraries
for AT&T WE DSP1600 processor, using gcc.

eLearning package on Windows. Responsible for
ActiveX component that recorded live presentations (images and audio) into
Flash files, and a Flash file editor to allow customization of captured
sessions.

Internal routing for ATM product.

B-tree file indexing package for stock market
database.

tftp downloader for Motorola 68HC16 processor.

Educational games for major drug companies -- used
at medical conventions, and as give-aways for doctors.